Chapter 4 Managing PowerDesigner Licenses

Requesting a License from Sybase Product Download Center

The Sybase Product Download Center (SPDC) is an online kiosk where you can obtain license keys to enable a Sybase software.

A PowerDesigner license key is a file with the .lic extension containing the information for authorizing PowerDesigner on your machine.

If you purchased PowerDesigner from Sybase When your order is processed, you will receive an E-mail with an URL, your login, and your password for the Sybase Product Download Center. Note that this E-mail is sent by subscribenet.com (not Sybase), make sure the subscribenet.com domain is not listed in your spamfilter otherwise you will not receive this message.

If you purchased PowerDesigner from a Sybase reseller When your order is processed, you will receive a certificate with a Web key registration number and a download URL.

Host ID and computer name

Before accessing the download site, make sure you know exactly your license configuration, the host ID and the name of the computer that will receive the license key file. You can find the host ID and the computer name in the License Management Wizard. When you select the Standalone Seat - Local License option in the wizard, these details are automatically calculated and displayed in the second page of the wizard. See the "Selecting a license file" section.

If you download the license file for a license server, you also need the host ID and the name of the server. You can find these information on the third page of the license server installation program (see the "Setting up a License Server" section, in the "Installing PowerDesigner" chapter in the Installation Guide ).

If the computer has several Ethernet cards or if they are supposed to change, you can use the volume serial number, which is another identification number that you obtain by typing dir c: in a DOS prompt window